Fountain Head Quotes

• He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

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  John Aubrey

  Fountain   Fountain Head   Harvey  

  John Aubrey (1957). “Brief lives”

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• The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus   Philosophy   Heart  

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.517

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• I am a man who does not exist for others.

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  Ayn Rand

  Men   Doe   Fountainhead  

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.78, Penguin

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• Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

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  Swami Vivekananda

  Paris   Fountain   Fountain Head  

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2469, Manonmani Publishers

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• I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

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  Ayn Rand

  Life   Death   Bad Ass  

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.783, Penguin

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• I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

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  Saadi

  Camels   Habit   Fountain  

  1394

• Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

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  William James

  Mother   Lying   Mystical Experiences  

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• One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

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  Ayn Rand

  Sense Of Humor   Fountainhead   Fountain Head  

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.546, Penguin

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational   Motivational   Change  

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

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  Gardiner Spring

  Water   Joy   Fountain  

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• You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

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  Ayn Rand

  Encounters   Fountainhead   Fountain Head  

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.624, Penguin

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• Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

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  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice   Self   Novelists  

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

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• Christ is like a river in another respect. A river is continually flowing, there are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountain-head continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever-flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the fountain is not spent. They who live upon Christ, may have fresh supplies from him to all eternity; they may have an increase of blessedness that is new, and new still, and which never will come to an end.

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  Jonathan Edwards

  Men   Rivers   Water  

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1974). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”

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• To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

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  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational   Soul   Doe  

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.551, Penguin

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• I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

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  Ayn Rand

  People   Half   Way  

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.483, Penguin

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